Felix Slade

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Felix Joseph Slade (born August 6, 1788 in Lambeth , London , † March 29, 1868 in London) was an English lawyer and art collector.

Life

Slade's father, Robert Carpenter, was a publisher and bookseller, and his mother, Eliza, was the heir to Foxcroft's Yorkshire estate . The couple had four sons, two of whom - Robert Agnes († in childhood 1787) and Edward Foxcroft († 1809) - died early. After the death of his older brother William on January 10, 1858, who was also a bachelor, Felix inherited the entire estate.

Slade was a great collector of books and engravings, ceramics, and Japanese ivory work. He also owned a remarkable glass collection, in which he had invested £ 8,000 and for which AW Franks had published an illustrated catalog (private print, London 1871). Slade was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1866 . He also contributed to exhibitions at the Archæological Institute , which published some of his curious objects in their journal.

Slade died unmarried on March 29, 1868 at his home on Walcot Place (Kennington Road). His will was opened on April 21st. His movable property was £ 160,000.

Foundations

Slade left his art collections to the British Museum . Slade also decreed that £ 35,000 should be set up for one chair each to promote the study of fine arts at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and University College, London.

The first endowed professorship of the Slade School of Arts was filled with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt at Cambridge University from 1869 to 1873 . The second chair of a Slade professor was first filled at Oxford University from 1870 to 1879 with John Ruskin , who combined this position with the establishment of a drawing school. After William Blake Richmond von (1879-1883) held this office, Ruskin took this position again from 1883 to 1885. At University College in London (ULC) Sir Edward Poynter was appointed Slade Professor on October 2, 1871 . Only the Slade School of Fine Art in London received an additional grant for six art scholarships each worth £ 50 per person. a. for students under 19 years of age. Poyntner established the tradition of figurative drawing based on the French model and soon competed with the Royal Academy. After his resignation in 1875, he made sure that the French Alphonse Legros was the next Slade professor.

Source

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Slade Collection in the British Museum
  2. ^ Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, FSA Slade Professor from 1869-73
  3. ↑ John Ruskin Slade Professor (PDF; 305 kB)
  4. ^ Later Victorian Portraits Catalog ( English ) National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Ten Lectures on Art - by Edward J. Poynter. Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London 1879
  6. ^ History of the Slade School of Fine Arts in London
personal data
SURNAME Slade, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slade, Felix Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lawyer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1868
Place of death London